Sometimes words are not enough
Sometimes, words are not enough. A family picture of us on an Adirondack peak. We made it! What was the journey like? I’m not going to attempt to tell you. You had to be there. Explanations We live in a world […]
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Please don’t call me a speaker
Call me a presenter or a facilitator. And, if you claim your conference is really about learning and connecting, consider employing a lot fewer “speakers” at your events.
Dear Adrian: Answers to participant-led event questions asked at a MeetingsNet webinar
Answers to questions about participant-led events that were asked at our MeetingsNet webinar. Topics include: Open Space, conference marketing, event size and scale, well-run events, and more.
When a guy brings bagpipes to your event
What happens when a guy brings bagpipes to your event? “My full-day live seminars have impact on people partly because I don’t announce the specific agenda or the talking points in advance. It’s live and it’s alive. I have no […]
Four important truths about conference evaluations
Here are some thoughts after spending a couple of hours reviewing participant post-event evaluations of the annual edACCESS conference. I don’t know any meeting planners who especially enjoy creating, soliciting, and analyzing conference evaluations. It’s tempting to see them as […]
Do conference participants want less control?
Do conference participants want less control? When Google announced the end of its popular RSS reader Google Reader, many assumed it was a business decision based on economics. Maybe not. Christina Bonnington writes in Wired: …there’s another reason Google decided […]
Should you self-publish your book?
Should you self-publish your book? “Here’s the problem with self-publishing: no one cares about your book. That’s it in a nutshell. There are somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books published every year in the US alone, depending on which stats […]
Human spectrograms—video from the FRESH Conference
Thanks to Merv Wyeth of Chanctonbury Associates for this video of the human spectrograms (aka body voting) I facilitated at a session on facilitation at the 2013 FRESH conference on innovative meeting formats in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the video, we […]
The Solution Room—an introductory video
The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video introducing The Solution Room, a plenary session I facilitate for 20 – 300 people that engages and […]
Giving people permission to connect
How can we give people permission to connect? On the bus Sitting on the chartered hotel bus on the first day of the conference, I noticed something. I was presenting at EIBTM: a huge hosted buyer tradeshow, held in Barcelona […]